A middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.
Practical Effects
Practical effects make the cyborg transformation viscerally real.
Acting
Noritake Kinashi balances pathetic dad with terrifying weapon perfectly.
Direction
Shinsuke Sato turns migraines and nosebleeds into pure cinema.
Director
Shinsuke Sato
Noritake Kinashi
Ichiro Inuyashiki
Takeru Satoh
Hiro Shishigami
Kanata Hongo
Naoyuki Ando
Fumi Nikaido
Shion Watanabe
Ayaka Miyoshi
Mari Inuyashiki
Nayuta Fukuzaki
Takeshi Inuyashiki
Mari Hamada
Marie Inuyashiki
Yuki Saito
Yuko Shishigami
Yūsuke Iseya
Detective Hagihara
Moeka Koizumi
Assistant Anchor
Nozomi Fukuda
Atomu Mizuishi
Tecchan [Classmate]
Kazuki Miki
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Noritake Kinashi is primarily a comedian; this was his first dramatic lead role. The casting choice was deliberately subversive.
The manga author Hiroya Oku also created Gantz, and both explore the same theme: ordinary Japanese men weaponized by alien tech against their will. Inuyashiki specifically channels post-2011 anxieties about aging populations and economic irrelevance.
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